Sally Smart
Sally Smart will be researching the early 20th Century Italian modernist avant-garde at the intersection of art and performance; their use of costume and textiles; along with the related historical legacies of Ancient Roman Theatre, the Commedia dell’arte and Italian puppetry traditions. Her time will be used to immerse in the museum collections, archives, galleries, performance archives and spaces representing these histories, designers and artists. The project is inspired by Casa Balla, a home as ‘a total artwork’ created by Giacomo Balla and his family of women artists in Rome.
Smart has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and is represented in most major galleries and collections throughout Australia and in various collections both public and private, internationally. Smart’s most recent public exhibitions include P.A.R.A.D.E., Geelong Gallery, Victoria Australia (2022); Matisse Alive, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2021); The Artist’s Ballet, The National 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney (2021) and Bessie Davidson and Sally Smart Two Artists and the Parisian Avant-Garde at Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo (2020).
In 2024, Smart had her second solo exhibition, Flaubert's Puppets, at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, following on from her first solo, Choreographies (The Artist’s Ballet) in 2021.